Background
Major vascular injury during a spinal surgery is a rare but most dreaded complication.
Case Presentation
A 39 years old female undergoing microscopic lumbar discectomy suddenly developed severe hypotension on table. The procedure was abandoned and the patient turned supine. It was diagnosed to be a major vessel tear and the patient was taken up for immediate successful vascular repair. To best of our knowledge such a repair procedure has not been described in literature.
Conclusions
Majority of such vascular injuries are dealt with primary repair of the defect by a vascular surgeon; however in our case the rent was big and placed on the undersurface making it very difficult for the vascular surgeon to approach or repair it primarily.
Singh, S., Bhanot, A., Bajaj, N., & Rustagi, P. (2013). Innovative Technique of Vascular Repair in Intra-Operative IVC Rupture During Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Case Report. Archives of Trauma Research,, 2(3), 133-135. doi: 10.5812/atr.11005
MLA
Sandeep Singh; Arun Bhanot; Nipun Bajaj; Pooja Rustagi. "Innovative Technique of Vascular Repair in Intra-Operative IVC Rupture During Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Case Report". Archives of Trauma Research,, 2, 3, 2013, 133-135. doi: 10.5812/atr.11005
HARVARD
Singh, S., Bhanot, A., Bajaj, N., Rustagi, P. (2013). 'Innovative Technique of Vascular Repair in Intra-Operative IVC Rupture During Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Case Report', Archives of Trauma Research,, 2(3), pp. 133-135. doi: 10.5812/atr.11005
VANCOUVER
Singh, S., Bhanot, A., Bajaj, N., Rustagi, P. Innovative Technique of Vascular Repair in Intra-Operative IVC Rupture During Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Case Report. Archives of Trauma Research,, 2013; 2(3): 133-135. doi: 10.5812/atr.11005
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